S'pore opposition leader to Gore party

S'pore opposition leader to Gore party

SINGAPORE (AFP): Opposition leader Chee Soon Juan is to take his fight for greater democracy in Singapore to the democratic heartland in the United States when he attends Al Gore's presidential nomination, the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) said on Friday.

Chee, twice jailed for defying restrictions on public political gatherings, has been invited to next week's Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles where Vice President Gore will be officially nominated as presidential candidate.

He will be among 500 heads of government, parliamentarians, ambassadors and political leaders also attending the International Leaders Forum (ILF) being held in conjunction with the convention.

Chee, a U.S. trained neuropsycholgist, is the secretary general of the SDP which lost all three of its parliamentary seats in the ballot.